November 2019
Srijon Chowdhury at Anat Ebgi
On view: November 2–December 14, 2019 In a Culver City gallery, a pale, ghostly woman lays astride a horse, scythe in hand, as if headed into battle. Anat Ebgi’s press release points us to a somewhat overdramatic William Blake poem—“Cruelty has a Human Heart / And Jealousy a Human Face,” it reads. Artist Srijon Chowdhury lifts this text to create a gate-like pattern over the female rider, abstracting letters until few are legible. In another painting nearby, a similar female figure,…
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“Good Company: The Remix” at Anat Ebgi
Anat Ebgi opened their new Wilshire gallery space in early December with a group show called “Good Company,” co-organized with former MOCA curator, Paul Schimmel. As if the usual six-week exhibition wouldn’t quite mark the milestone, the gallery has stretched the exhibition out through May, rotating the works and artists to form three back-to-back shows. While the exhibition largely celebrates the gallery’s growing roster of artists, it also looks back at Anat Ebgi’s 10 year history, while also including a…
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Sarah Ann Weber at Anat Ebgi
In Sarah Ann Weber’s “Strong Blossoming Thing Forever,” florals become a maximalist patina that engulf the artworks. The female figures set into these edge-to-edge tropical motifs are lithe and stoic, like classical sculptures pulled out of art history texts (and some are—one references Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”). Some frolic among the blooms, enjoying their splendor, while in others, like “Long leaved flowers weep,” a darker, more apocalyptic scene unfolds, with the natural environment overtaking its subject, consuming her like a…
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Jane Margarette at Anat Ebgi
The first piece I encountered at Jane Margarette’s solo show, A Honey of Tangle, was a cartoonishly oversized pink ceramic latch, held in place with a turning padlock. The artwork, Latch 3 (2019), implies a kinetic motion, a theme that continues across the works on view. In the main gallery, more locks and latches take the shape of fantastical birds and butterflies, each given an implied sense of movement. Hinges, hasps, and latches abound, often held in place with delicate…
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WOMANHOUSE at Anat Ebgi
Fifty years after monumental environmental art installation Womanhouse opened in LA, the feminist art exhibition gets a redux courtesy of curator Anat Ebgi Gallery (along with Stefano di Paolo and Los Angeles Nomadic Division). WOMANHOUSE, currently on view on Fountain Ave., features artworks by key figures in the original exhibition (Mira Shor, Faith Wilding, Karen LeCocq, Judy Chicago, Nancy Youdelman), but also intentionally includes artworks from before and after the 1972 installation, allowing for more context around each individual artist’s…
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Alannah Farrell at Anat Ebgi
Alannah Farrell’s portraiture draws on both art historical traditions and the intimate, charged connections between the artist and sitters, who are often Farrell’s queer friends, lovers, and neighbors. Farrell renders this deeply personal subject matter surrounding identity, gender dysphoria, and selfhood from a protective vantage point — a kind of buffer between the sitter and the sometimes violent societal gaze. Casual poses, various states of vulnerable undress, and a romantic, smoggy sunset palette capture introspection caught in a tender, hazy…
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